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* Firefox 81 is in the Beta channel. 81 is a significant release with improvements to printing, pdf handling (including new support for form filling) picture-in-picture discoverability, and credit card autofill. Firefox 81 is scheduled to go live in about three weeks on September 22nd.
* Firefox 82 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week it has seen about 350 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes:
** The new printing UI has gone from OK accessibility with one severe issue to delightfully accessible. ** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656296 Firefox will now show an indicator when a download is blocked because Firefox determined it was insecure/unwanted.]** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526820 The color picker is now keyboard accessible.]** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548753 A high profile list numbering bug was fixed.]** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656494 Firefox will now show a notification bar on the first New Tab of a session to ask if the user wants to set the default browser.]** Last week Firefox saw a change to speed up mouse wheel scrolling. That change was backed out and the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1660933 new approach is to only enable the faster speed for new users and to provide a gradual increase for existing users.]** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661475 The Send tab menu available from the Firefox Account toolbar button now has an entry to Manage Devices...]
== 2020-08-24 ==
